Match pointers• Since Zinedine Zidane's retirement France have failed to win their five matches at international tournaments

• South Africa's 3-0 defeat by Uruguay was the largest ever suffered by a host nation in the first round of the World Cup

• Nicolas Anelka has scored just once in his 15 appearances at international tournaments – against South Korea at the 2001 Confederations Cup

• Carlos Alberto Parreira has failed to win any of his 10 World Cup matches with the four nations he has managed at the finals apart from Brazil – Kuwait in 1982, UAE in 1990, Saudi Arabia in 1998 and South Africa in 2010

• France have been eliminated in the first round in three of their four previous World Cup participations outside Europe (Uruguay 1930, Argentina 1978 and Japan & South Korea 2002)